El Segundo Powerball player holding lottery ticket worth $1.4 million

The winner of this week’s largest-ever California jackpot was a $425.3 million ticket sold at a Chevron gas station in the Bay Area town of Milpitas, while stores in El Segundo and Modesto sold comparatively modest tickets worth $1.445 million.

None of the winners had claimed their prizes by late Thursday afternoon, said California Lottery spokesman Alex Traverso.

“They haven’t come in, as of yet, but they have 180 days to do so,” Traverso said.

The South Bay golden ticket bearing five of the six winning numbers was purchased at a 7-Eleven store at 2161 El Segundo Blvd. The Modesto prize was picked up at a liquor store. Both stores will be given $7,000 bonus prizes, while the owner of the Modesto Chevron station will get $1 million.

If the winner of the jackpot takes it in a lump sum, he or she will take home a cool $242.2 million before federal taxes are paid. The winning numbers of this sixth-largest jackpot in U.S. history were 17, 49, 54, 35, 1 and the Powerball number 34.

In December, a San Jose store sold a $324 million Mega Millions prize just 12 miles from where the magic ticket was sold in Milpitas, according to lottery officials. In October, a winner claimed a $213 million Powerball prize in Fresno.

In Wednesday’s drawing, there were 15 tickets with five numbers sold outside California, but missing the Powerball number. They are each worth $1 million. California law requires major payoffs of lottery games to be paid on a pari-mutuel basis, in which prize values depend on sales and the number of winning tickets.

This drawing was the 16th since the last time a winning ticket with all six numbers was sold. The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is 1 in 175,223,510, according to the Powerball website. The overall chance of winning a prize is less than 1 in 32.

The Powerball game is played in 43 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Lottery officials encourage winners to immediately sign the back of their ticket in ink before claiming the prize.